A man walks into a banker’s mansion and beats him to death with a golf club in front of his wife. He then confesses, and the only question is why. He claims it was a random attack but the wife, Julie, and Detective Sergeant Alice Moody both believe otherwise, and start digging. Julie comes from a solidly loving family, all […]
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The Woman in the Window by AJ Finn
This one is not all it’s cracked up to be, but still readable. Alcoholic agrophobic psychologist Anna Fox hasn’t been outside in many months and spends a unhealthy amount of time spying on her various neighbours, who seem to share an inexplicable disdain for curtains. When she thinks she sees a woman being murdered across the […]
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian
Midwives is a rich and satisfying read- my second taste of Chris Bohjalian, after the excellent The Guest Room. Sibyl Danforth is a warm, sensible midwife assisting women at home births in Vermont in 1981. One homebirth goes horribly wrong and, unable to get the patient to hospital, Sibyl ends up performing what she believes is […]
The Wife by Alafair Burke
Love a good page turner that conceals multiple secrets in its bosom. This one is better than Burke’s previous thriller, The Ex. When Angela Powell’s husband is accused of inappropriate contact with an intern, and then rape by another woman, defence attorney Olivia Randall makes another appearance as a ballsy, willing-to-cast-aside-professional-ethics-entirely-for-the-sake-of-my-client defence attorney. Angela stands […]
The Missing Girl by Jenny Quintana
Any book with a glowing review from Erin Kelly on the cover is going to compel me to buy it, and fast. Kelly wrote He Said/She Said (one of my Top Five Thrillers) and the glowing review is justified. Hard to believe this is Jenny Quintana’s first novel – the writing is so assured. Not […]
Winter of the World by Ken Follett
Another winner from Follett. Number two in the Century trilogy lays bare some of the horrors of World War Two from the next generation of the families we met in Fall of Giants. You may, like me, get occasionally confused by the multi generational, multinational families and their relationships with one another but it’s worth […]